Kay Royster fired from another school district

JENNINGS — The school board voted 4-3 on Monday night to buy out Superintendent Kay Royster’s contract, which was to run through June 2009. The buyout was estimated to cost about $230,000.

Royster had come under fire in recent months, accused by teachers in public meetings of allowing reserve funds to dwindle, hiring unnecessary administrators and failing to implement a $1.5 million computer program.

21 comments to Kay Royster fired from another school district

Unbelievable… she will argue it was racial… just like in Detroit and Peoria… it is a good career, though, get hired, get fired and paid off for the rest of your contract… do it again in another state… where next? Let’s see… Michigan, Illinois, Missouri… she must be going to Oklahoma next.

I have a feeling Royster would have difficulty claiming racial bias in this case. While I don’t know the racial make-up of the Jennings Board of Education for certain, the community is almost 80% African-American. My guess would be that most if not all of the board members are black.

Do you think this is our Royster–now just a principal of a charter school in St. Louis: (I suppose there could be more than one Kay Royster in education in Missouri (her last stop as superintendent, I think).

Yes, this is the same Kay Royster and make no mistakes, she is up to the same tricks as she was before. This time, all though Imagine Schools has been given all the fair warning, especially to the schools regional executive (Sam Howard), he has turned a blind eye. The lady (if I could call her that) is something to work for. You can ask any employee in her building and they will tell you the same thing. I would never send my child or have anything to do with what Kay Royster is involved in.